Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black...

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation...

timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement...

The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts...

The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans....

During the civil rights movement (1954–1968), American Jews and African Americans formed strategic alliances to challenge racial inequality and injustice...

Civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against...

The main aim of the successful civil rights movement and other social movements for civil rights included ensuring that the rights of all people were...

The civil rights movement (1865–1896) aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities...

The South Carolina Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Orangeburg, South Carolina, commemorating the civil rights movement. The curator of the museum and...

tactic in the civil rights movement in the years to come. In February 1961, students from Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, organized...

the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public...

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February...

who were killed in the civil rights movement. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The names included in the memorial belong...

American women of the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) played a significant role to its impact and success. Women involved participated in sit-ins and other...

The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws...

state for industrial cities in the Great Migration of the 20th century. By 1960, during the Civil Rights Movement, South Carolina had a population of 2,382...

The parental rights movement is a socially conservative political movement aimed at restricting schools' ability to teach or practice certain viewpoints...

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807843864. Richardson, Gloria (2010). "The Energy of the People...

Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement (University of Virginia Press, 2006). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Jackson (South Carolina)...

it somewhat contributed to the secession movement that led to South Carolina being the first state to leave the Union. In the Antebellum Period, Bluffton...

The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote the legal status of transgender people and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender...

known as The Burg, is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13...

South Carolina state legislature established racial segregation of public facilities by state law in the late 19th century. During the Civil Rights Movement...

Democrats in the South supported substantive economic intervention, civil rights for African Americans were not specifically incorporated within the New Deal...

of the national spotlight during the civil rights movement focused on Alabama and Mississippi. Much of the civil rights movement in South Carolina happened...

Lily-White Movement proved successful throughout the South and was a key factor in the growth of the Republican Party in the region. The term Lily-White...

The civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped usher in a new era, sometimes referred to as the New South. The Deep South is part of the highly-religious...

who worked on the land grant movement. He fought to regain control of what he considered ancestral lands. He became involved in civil rights causes within...